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Love at Last! Rare 'Lefty' Snail Finds Mollusk Mate

Jeremy, a snail with a rare left-spiraling shell, is lonely no more. After a vast media campaign designed to help the mollusk find a left-spiraled mate, two matches have oozed forward, in a manner of speaking. The double discovery astonished Jeremy's keeper, Angus Davison, an associate professor and reader in...
Venomous Cone Snails Weaponize Insulin to Stun Prey

At least two species of cone snail have turned insulin into an underwater weapon, a new study finds. When these stealthy aquatic snails approach their prey, they release insulin, a hormone that can cause blood sugar levels to plummet. Nearby fish don't stand a chance. The sudden influx of insulin...

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Animal Sex: How Love Dart–Shooting Snails Do It
Animal Sex: How Love Dart–Shooting Snails Do It
This Valentine's Day, mischievous Cupid will be fluttering about with bow in hand, seeking out mortal hearts to pierce with his love-tinged arrows. But the winged god isn't the only one known for this kind of behavior — oddly, land snails are also known to shoot love darts. Land snails...
Newfound 'Spider-Man' Snail Is an Expert Web Slinger
Newfound 'Spider-Man' Snail Is an Expert Web Slinger
A newfound species of colorful marine snail slings nets of mucus like superhero web slinger Spider-Man and is kind of cute, according to the scientist who found and described it. The tiny sea creature belongs to a group known as worm snails — soft-bodied mollusks encased in tubular shells with...
Scientists Sucked a Memory Out of a Snail and Stuck It in Another Snail.
Scientists Sucked a Memory Out of a Snail and Stuck It in Another Snail.
A new study strongly suggests that at least some memories are stored in genetic code, and that genetic code can act like memory soup. Suck it out of one animal and stick the code in a second animal, and that second animal can remember things that only the first animal...
Tiniest Snail Ever Found Could Fit Through Needle's Eye 10 Times
Tiniest Snail Ever Found Could Fit Through Needle's Eye 10 Times
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Who knows? But 10 Angustopila dominikae snails can fit within the eye of a needle. The newly discovered snail species, found in China, may be the world's smallest land snail. The height of its shell is only 0.03 inches...
Photos: 'Lefty'-Shelled Snails Have 'Righty' Babies
Photos: 'Lefty'-Shelled Snails Have 'Righty' Babies
Lookin' for Love (Image credit: Angus Davison/University of Nottingham)Jeremy is a rare snail, and despite many efforts by his caretakers, he is still looking for love. Jeremy is a garden snail with left-spiraled shell, a trait that makes him one in a million. Lefty, or sinistral snails, can mate only...
Tweet #SnailLove to Help Lonely Mollusk Find a Mate
Tweet #SnailLove to Help Lonely Mollusk Find a Mate
If only there were an online dating site like Tinder or OkCupid for snails. Then Jeremy, a very unusual snail found in an English garden, might have a better chance of finding love. The mollusk is rare — a one-in-a-million discovery — and his chances of finding a mate will...
Squatter Beetles Eat Snails and Steal Shells
Squatter Beetles Eat Snails and Steal Shells
The awkward stage of adolescence drives some insects to murderous home invasion. When the time comes to shed their skin, certain beetle larvae in Greece scout out a sleeping snail, break into its shell, eat the victim alive and then squat in its home for days. But the snail targets...
Micro Mollusk Breaks Record for World's Tiniest Snail
Micro Mollusk Breaks Record for World's Tiniest Snail
An itsy-bitsy mollusk in Borneo is the new record holder for the world's smallest known snail, a new study finds. Its shiny, translucent, white shell has an average height of 0.027 inches (0.7 millimeters), breaking the previously held record by about a tenth of a millimeter. The former champion —...

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